Can't import modules

[Peter Farrell]

Thanks for trying to help, everybody. Sorry I didn't post the whole error message. Now my problem is I just installed VPython and I'm trying to run the very first example, bounce.py which I located. I opened it and ran it in Idle. I got this message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python32\Lib\site-packages\visual\examples\bounce.py", line 1, in <module>
    from visual import *
  File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\visual\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .visual_all import *
  File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\visual\visual_all.py", line 1, in <module>
    from vis import version
  File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\vis\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .cvisual import (vector, dot, mag, mag2, norm, cross, rotate,
SystemError: initialization of cvisual raised unreported exception

I'm not a programmer, just a math teacher/tutor who's trying to teach my students to understand math through using something real like Python. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Peter

On Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:22:31 PM UTC-7, Hans Mulder wrote:
> On 30/09/12 21:42:37, Peter Farrell wrote:
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> > I'm still new to Python, so here's another easy one. After I save something
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> > I've done as a .py file, how do I import it into something else I work on?
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> > Every time I try to import something other than turtle or math, I get this error message:
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> > 'module' object is not callable
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> > What am I doing wrong?
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> For starters, you're not showing us any code.
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> The error message suggests that you have successfully imported
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> a module, and you then try to use the module as if it were a
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> callable.  That won't work: modules are not callable.
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> My crystal ball says that you may have been a Java programmer
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> in an earlier life.  In Java, a file must define exactly one
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> class, and the class must have the same name as the file.
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> Python is not Java.  In Python, a file may define one class,
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> or twenty, or none at all.  To avoid confusion, do not give
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> any of your classes the same name as any of your files.
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> Hope this helps,
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> 
> -- HansM